As one of the continent's two great empires, the Malo Empire covered a vast territory, and the private fiefs allotted to its noble lords were naturally much larger than those of nobles in small countries like the Lampari Kingdom.
On Marquis Southgate's private fief, the total area of productive farmland for that year's autumn harvest exceeded five hundred hectares, far surpassing any noble's private fief in the Lampari Kingdom.
Yet when all the farmland on Marquis Southgate's private fief had been harvested a week later, the wheat weighed in at less than six hundred tonnes. That worked out to an average yield of only about seventy-five kilograms per mu.
Compared with the wheat yields of over two hundred and fifty kilograms per mu during the autumn harvests in the Lampari Kingdom and the Stantin Duchy, it was hardly worth mentioning.
Apart from the outdated farming methods on Marquis Southgate's private fief limiting production, the most important reason for such an enormous gap was, of course, fertilizer.
Even so, this yield delighted everyone on Marquis Southgate's private fief, from the marquis himself down to the slaves taking part in the harvest. They all declared it a bumper year.
More importantly, harvesting those five hundred-plus hectares of farmland in previous years had taken at least a month of hard work, even with everyone in the fief pitching in.
Even the slightest obstacle could prolong the process further.
On several previous occasions, Marquis Southgate's private fief had lost a considerable amount of grain because the harvest could not be completed in time.
Now, with the Cantona Chamber of Commerce's help, all five hundred hectares of grain fields had been harvested in just one week. The sheer amount of time left over was almost unbelievable.
Moreover, the amount of labor required during that time